Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1920 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TOWN HELPS

UFE IN SMALL TOWN BEST Has Many Advantages Compared to the Hurry and Bustle Inflicted on City Dweller. I do not think that where a man lives has anything to do with his progression, as progression is hereditary and it is not caused by environment writes a correspondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch. The idea that a boy must go to the city to acquire fame is becoming -a thing of the past for people of this world are beginning to realize that progression may mean many things—among them progression In tilling the s#il as well as progression in politics. The most progressive men In the world are the men who go to make up the little towns, for they are generally the steady, reliable, sensible fellows, who do not pine for the excitement and the glare of a life in a big city. Small town men are the rock upon which this great country Is most securely built. They are the wholesome, true-blue scouts, who are big enough to live the simple, little town life, and their quiet nerves hold our country balanced. The city man is a bunch of nerves compared with the man from the village. His days art spent in dodging automobiles in the streets, hurrying from place to place, trying to beat the other fellow at making money, and after a day of being “on the jump” he goes to the theater and does not get home until morning. Then he sleeps five hours and Is ready to go through the same performance again. Little Town Man goes to bed at 10 after an evening at the movie and at 6 is ready to get up and begin his day. The “country Jake” is no longer a person to be laughed at, but a person to be envied, and many of our greatest so-called progressives are going back to the “simple-life.”